Squirtle, You And Your Pokémon Friends Are Creepy

Cute? These Pocket Monsters aren't cute. They're creepy. But that's the point: artist Vaughn Pinpin redesigned the first generation of Pokémon starters if they were characters in a Tim Burton movie. The result is brilliant -- creepy, but brilliant.

Pinpin is planning to re-do the first 151 Pocket Monsters in the Pokédex all dark and quirky like. Sounds like a plan to me. He just needs a good name: Dark Pokémons? The Demon Pocket Monsters of Kanto Region? Ash Pokéball Hands?

Or you know, he could have stumbled across it.
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If any one thing about The Last Jedi has been contentious -- actually, no, strike that, everything about The Last Jedi has been contentious, including its approach to space combat (the Holdo Manoeuvre, anyone?). But according to one fan and critic, Rian Johnson's epic actually makes space combat in the Star Wars universe more explicable, not less.